Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon offers some valuable insight into Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
When Elon Musk took his poll last month about free speech on Twitter, we wondered if it had something to do with what had been happening to The Babylon Bee.
- Seth Dillon explains why The Babylon Bee has been ‘locked out of our account for hateful conduct’
- Seth Dillon shares Twitter’s statement about Babylon Bee’s locked account and it’s ‘truly Orwellian’
- Twitter locks defiant Babylon Bee editor-in-chief Kyle Mann out of his account for the ‘hateful conduct’ that is … spotlighting Uyghur genocide
- Twitter pulls the account-locking trigger on Not the Bee CEO (and Babylon Bee founder) Adam Ford for — you guessed it — ‘hateful conduct’
- Twitter has spoken, declaring that ‘we will not overturn our decision’ to punish The Babylon Bee for following basic biological science
- Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon’s thread gets to the heart of Twitter’s bogus commitment to ‘opinions and beliefs without barriers’
Now that Musk has officially become Twitter’s largest shareholder and been appointed to the board of directors, Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon has confirmed our suspicions:
Musk reached out to us before he polled his followers about Twitter's commitment to free speech. He wanted to confirm that we had, in fact, been suspended. He even mused on that call that he might need to buy Twitter. Now he's the largest shareholder and has a seat on the board.
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) April 5, 2022
How about that?
Amazing.
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 5, 2022
Few people are in a position to do what Elon Musk has done. And if he wants to use his position to effect positive change and promote free speech, we’re all for it.
EXCELLENT.
Shareholder activism is in full swing. https://t.co/8hcIYQZWYk
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) April 5, 2022
You love to see it. Because this is how it’s supposed to work.
And that scares the pants off the Left.
Liberals: yes, we want tech billionaires to control, police and censor Western political debates, but not *this* tech billionaire. https://t.co/atHAOkt8ZI
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
What is it about Elon Musk that makes him so much more objectionable than the other tech billionaires libs want to put in charge of regulating speech?
🤣🤣🤣
I'm skeptical of whether Musk will be able to make the changes many of these liberals fear, or whether he'll really try, but look how petrified they are about living in a world where tech oligarchs no longer censor at their behest. They don't want to live in such a world: https://t.co/8S7EnYJ7un
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
The deleted tweet I was referencing is below. There are many like these. @BrianStelter talked about liberal fears of Musk no longer censorship Twitter for them on CNN yesterday. pic.twitter.com/ySoc68A7Ip
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 5, 2022
Oh yeah. Brian Stelter was beside himself yesterday:
We scrambled the rundown of "Reliable Sources Daily" when the Twitter/Elon Musk news broke – tune in for our special coverage now – https://t.co/F0bGztqNmj
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 4, 2022
The richest person on the planet just bought a big chunk of the planet's premiere communications tools. Clip from Reliable Sources Daily >>> pic.twitter.com/9N0Ls8FxUc
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 4, 2022
You can imagine how he’s feeling today. Not that you have to imagine it:
Liberal journos aren’t the only ones feeling nervous right now …
Disney right now: pic.twitter.com/Lt9BOs0Re7
— Tim (16'h3904) (@bjt2n3904) April 5, 2022
They’ve gotta be sweating bullets over at Disney.
